AC 1440-1441 - Shechem; AC 1442-1443 - the oak-grove Morah

Because this story of Abram is so powerfully of the Lord's development,
at this point, these quotes will be from the 'Arcana' for awhile.

AC 1440-1441
Abram passed through the land, even unto the place Shechem.
(Genesis 12:6)
That this signifies the Lord's second state,
when the celestial things of love became apparent to Him . . ..
In celestial things there is the very light of the soul;
because the Divine itself, that is, Jehovah Himself, is in them;
and as the Lord was to conjoin the Human Essence to the Divine Essence,
when He attained to celestial things
it could not be otherwise than that Jehovah appeared to Him.

Shechem is as it were the first station in the land of Canaan,
in journeying from Syria, or from Haran;
and as the celestial things of love are signified by "the land of Canaan,"
it is evident that their first appearing is signified by Shechem.
When Jacob returned from Haran into the land of Canaan,
he in like manner came to Shechem . . ..

AC 1442-1443
As soon as Jehovah appeared to the Lord in His celestial things
it is evident that He attained perception;
all perception is from celestial things.
. . . Everyone receives perception from the Lord
when he comes to celestial things.
They who have become celestial people,
such as those of the Most Ancient Church,
have all received perception.
They who become spiritual people,
that is, who receive charity from the Lord,
have something analogous to perception,
or rather they have a dictate of conscience, more or less clear,
in proportion as they are in the celestial things of charity.
The celestial things of charity are attended with this;
for in them alone the Lord is present,
and in them He appears to a person.
How much more must this have been the case with the Lord,
who from infancy advanced to Jehovah,
and was conjoined and united to Him,
so that they were One.

The intellectual things of the celestial person
are compared to a garden of trees of every kind;
his rational things,
to a forest of cedars and similar trees,
such as there were in Lebanon;
but his memory-knowledges are compared to oak-groves,
and this from their intertwined branches
such as are those of the oak.
By trees themselves are signified perceptions;
as by the trees of the garden of Eden eastward, inmost perceptions,
or those of intellectual things by the trees of the forest of Lebanon,
interior perceptions, or those of rational things;
but by the trees of an oak-grove,
exterior perceptions, or those of memory-knowledges,
which belong to the external person.
So it is that "the oak-grove Moreh"
signifies the Lord's first perception;
for He was as yet a child,
and His spiritual things were not more interior than this.
Besides, the oak-grove Moreh was where the sons of Israel also first came
when they passed over the Jordan
and saw the land of Canaan . . .
for the entrance of the sons of Israel
represents the entrance of the faithful into the Lord's kingdom.